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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
David Barnett

Bruce Springsteen cover reignites row over lost northern soul classic

Bruce Springsteen performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Bruce Springsteen performing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Photograph: NBC/Todd Owyoung/Getty Images

When Bruce Springsteen performed his new single on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 14 November, it was to rapturous applause and the ecstatic US talkshow host leaping from his seat to declare that the Boss had “crushed it!”

But 3,300 miles away, Springsteen’s performance of the lost Motown classic Do I Love You (Indeed I Do), from his new album of soul covers, Only The Strong Survive, was reigniting a debate that has raged for almost half a century.

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